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Metcalfe Architecture & Design has redesigned an existing mid-century dwelling of the Seidenberg House in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, USA. MA&D reconstructed this mid-century kit house, taking advantage of its location by creating a bedroom nestled in the treetops, transforms it into a house in the sky. A glass connector bridge links the bedroom to the [...]

The house is located on the first row of lots and was designed by Metropolis so that the architecture acted like a frame to the view of the beach and the islands that are found in front of the house. The esthetic of the house celebrates the summer with modern curves that remind us of [...]

The Mary Lake Residence was designed by Toronto-based studio Altius Architecture in the Village of Port Sydney, Huntsville, Ontario. This year-round house takes advantages of the entire site set amongst towering white pines. The project consists of two solid volumes connected by a glazed entry space and indoor/outdoor living room. The roof of the living [...]

Mountford Road by Shaun Lockyer Architects in New Farm, Brisbane, Australia: The “Mountford Road” project is a small but dramatic intervention into a 1950’s post war house, originally designed by the “Bell Brothers” (also well known for their furniture). The design exercise comprised essentially two aspects to the brief; the first being about the pragmatics [...]

California Dreaming is designed by Bild Architecture as one of Australian suburban typologies to contemporary housing requirements. The area’s original houses were often indiscriminately placed on the site; with little consideration or adaption to the sites orientation, topography or street address. The project takes the California Bungalow typology as a point of departure, progressively adapting [...]

Nettleton 199 by SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects and OKHA Interiors in Clifton, Cape Town, South Africa: The brief was to create a building that maximised the connection with the view and the sea, create a garden on the mountain side of the site and to minimise views over neighbouring buildings. Incoming search [...]